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Carole Bayer: CU President Bruce Benson -- What about guns and alcohol?

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12/11/2012 01:00:00 AM MST

Portland, Ore., police advise Oregon pot users that "Sure, you can go over to Washington state to smoke some weed but you might get arrested for driving under the influence if you're pulled over coming home, even if you're on a bike."

I can't imagine anyone more dangerous and putting more of us at risk than an adult who just smoked a small amount of pot and got on a bicycle. Unless..... it's a young person driving a car after consuming copious amounts of alcohol at a party... or a graduate student who has severe mental health problems buying a gun that can kill 12 people and wound 58 others in the space of a few minutes.

I only wish CU's President Benson had spent as much time, money and influence on efforts to reduce alcohol bingeing by CU students, keeping guns out of all public places, and providing mental health support as he did on opposing Amendment 64.

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